An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call the police, even anonymously. After a respite from keeping the list, it restarted in January 2019, highlighting one case a day. If there’s a case you’ve seen that deserves highlighting, drop me a line at hickey@brianphickey.com.
10494. DETROIT (WXYZ) — Karen Russell believes investigators with Detroit police were not trying to find the hit-and-run driver who injured her son because the teen was riding a minibike when it happened. Minibikes and ATVs are illegal on the streets of Detroit.
10495. “To know that she got out of her car saw what she did to my daughter and then left the scene of what she did, it just baffles me how someone could just do that,” Brandy Schachter said Wednesday.
10496. “They let him go 72-hours later and nothing. Didn’t have to go before a judge, didn’t have to do anything. They just let him go,” Banks said.
10497. A Morris County man has been arrested and charged in the hit-and-run that fatally injured a 12-year-old boy in Union, acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo and Union Police Director Daniel Zieser jointly announced late Friday.
10498. A stolen truck that police believe hit Tapia has not been found. The police department originally said its officers didn’t follow the truck at all. Then it said the officers had their lights on for about four seconds. Now, it is changing its story again, saying that officers were following the truck for a much longer time, but it doesn’t know how long.
10499. A 58-year-old bicyclist was killed in a hit-and-run crash in East Baltimore last week, police said Monday.
10500. A 9-year-old boy riding a tricycle Sunday evening was struck by a vehicle in Kansas City, sending him to a hospital with serious injuries, police said.
10501. A motorist with a suspended license fatally struck a pedestrian in the Bronx this morning, hours before another woman was critically injured by a hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn, police said.
10502. “I seen my grandson laid in a puddle of blood though the head,” Jones said. “I’m hollering ‘that’s my grandson!’ I thought I could wake him up, but I knew he was down.”
10503. A 15-year-old boy is in the hospital after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in the Historic South-Central neighborhood of Los Angeles Tuesday night.
10504. A 60-year-old man struck by a hit-and-run cyclist in the Flatiron District last week has succumbed to his injuries, cops said Wednesday.
10505. “I miss my baby. I say it all the time, I miss my baby,” said Gloria Hardy. She’ll probably say it the rest of her life.
10506. An Upper Pottsgrove man told police, “I thought I killed her and I panicked,” and now awaits his fate from a judge for leaving the scene after striking and seriously injuring a female pedestrian with his pickup truck in the township.
10507. “Be man enough or woman enough to turn [themselves] in for my brother,” said Maggie Atlas, victim’s sister.
10508. Friday, as Sharo walked into a room, Officer Strunk said, “Thank you very much. Appreciate everything you did.” Adding, “I was in a bad way. You helped me out. Several people didn’t do anything. You went out of your way, and I appreciate it.” She responded, “I saw how hard he hit you. It’s scary you had dark clothes. You were laying on the ground and people were just driving around you, driving past.”
10509. “That’s what angered me the most. The fact that somebody would keep going after hitting a child,” said Aleck.
10510. “I remember going out and seeing that a car was coming so I didn’t open my door right away, and then the next thing I know I remember waking up on the ground and staring at my car. My first thought was like ‘how did that happen?'” said Pirie.
10511. “The guy’s sneakers and all were like half way across the yard. So, he had to hit him really hard,” said neighbor Mark Gramiak.
10512. The driver in a hit and run causing injury from more than 5 years ago is finally caught and brought into court. … Conner appeared on the City of Beloit’s “Most Wanted’ list for the crime.
10513. A Columbus police officer has been arrested for falsely reporting an abandoned car as stolen after an accident, authorities said.
10514. A Pittsburgh Bureau of Police officer is facing charges in connection to a hit and run that took place in June.
10515. “You don’t find beauty in the things you used to find beauty in,” Claunch said, pausing to wipe tears from her face. “You try, but it’s just not there. I’ve lost a lot of people but when you bury your child, you bury half of you.”
10516. State Police have located the 2017 Chevrolet Trax they said hit two girls and a dog in the Town of Sheldon. Troopers are still determining who was operating that vehicle at the time of the crash.
10517. “She was a mother to every single person she met. She never met a stranger, everyone was family. She loved everything that she touched and every person that she met,” her daughters add. “I’m glad she’s not hurting anymore and she’s with God.”
10518. OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — A Delaware woman has been charged with nearly 50 criminal violations after police say she drove drunk and was involved in multiple hit-and-run crashes in Maryland.
10519. A teenage girl was killed by a hit-and-run driver on Long Island while walking to get some grub after getting off work with her twin, according to police and friends.
10520. Officials have taken a woman into custody after she allegedly walked away from the scene of a deadly Father’s Day crash in North Hills and proceeded to flee to Mexico, Los Angeles police said Sunday.
10521. A 9-year-old boy was nearly killed after police say he was the victim of a hit-and-run crash. Police say the boy was struck upon exiting a parked car shortly after 7:30 p.m. in Northeast Philadelphia on Sunday.
More hit-and-run stories, including every volume of Hit-and-Run America (in reverse order), are accessible from this linked page. (The full Volume-by-Volume list will appear sporadically from now on.)